Support Systems of Wtdows m the Chicago Area*

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1 Persons whose mn~or Job (m t,erms of weeks worked) was m government an be ldentllied from the CPS class-of-vorker code Persons whose mayor lob was with a nonprofit orgamzatlon can be zdentlfied, though not perfectly, by using CPS industry d&all a It was assumed that persons ldentlfied by the CPS *s employees of government or nonprofit orgamzatlons whose SER earmngs were less than half of those reported to the CPS had only a secondary Job m OASDHI-covered employment and were not covered on them mayor job This assumption explained a substantial proportion of tho differences between SER earmngs and CPS earn-.mgs, part~ularly for men m the age range Support Systems of Wtdows m the Chicago Area* In 1974, the finanaal, socu~l, service, and emotlonal support systems of widows m the ChIcago are,* were studled to determme how much nsslstante widows actually recess and gee The SWvey was conducted by the Loyola Unlverslty of Chlcngo s Center for the Compsratlve Study of Social Roles with funds provided by the Social Security Admnnstratlon under Contract No The data are based on mtervlews with 1,169 widows from a sample usmg the Socml Security Admmlstratlon records for the current reclplents of widow s benefits under the soclsl security program, ex-bent&lanes who had left the rolls within 12 years of the study, and women whose~ benefits hod been lnmted to lump-sum death pay ments wlthm 3 years of the study The umverse consisted of 195,789 widows The 1970 Census revealed that there were 379,390 women m the Chl- *By Helena Z Lopata, Center for the Comparative Study of Soria, Roles, Loyola University of Chicaqo. and Henry P Brehm, Chief, Research Grants Staff, O&e of Research and Statistics, Socin, Security Administration cage standard metropohtan statlsbcal area who had been wldowed, most of whom had not remarrled FINDINGS Three-fourths of the respondents were at least partly dependent upon social secunty benefits For one-fifth of them, these benefits were the only source of mcome Two-fifths had mcomcs below the poverty threshold, and one-tenth reported no income at all Best off were those v.110 had remarried, those with earnmgs through employ mont, those wclth several sources of mcome even though each source contributed httle, and those who obtained the maxm~um family ben&s because they had two dependent children (women with more than two dependent children m effect recave no addltlonal benefit amount) The highest mean income was recaved by women aged 41-50, and the highest median mcome by those aged 3140 Women who were not currently ehglble for socm1 security benefits because they had no dependent children and were not old enough for aged widow s benefitg, parhcularly If they had received only a lump-sum death payment, appeared to be the most disgruntled These, of course, were rather recently widowed women who were still suffermg some of the consequences of grief, but other reasons for their dlssntlsfnctlon were WIdent Relative depnvatlon was an important part of them sltuatlon They had becomo wldowed while shll in the prune of life Many of thar friends still had hvmg husbands at a tnne when then own support systems reqmred change These women were angry mlth the Lgovernment and the Sac& Security Admmlstratlon at a dlsproportlonate rate because they were rocelvmg no regular finsnaal assistance The widow under age 60 who had no dependent children w&s financially dlsadvnntaged If she could not earn her own Income or draw benefits based on dlsablhty Young widows without children were usually already m the labor force and were more hkelg to remarry than were women wldowed later m hfe Once a younger widow had worked out her grief, she did not present soaetal problems e,xcept m unusual circumstances The mother of one small child tended to work or hve on socml security

2 benefits As noted earher, the mother wth two children drew the highest famly benefits but each addltmml child beyond that number nxreased the hkehhood that she would be drwen Into the labor force because of econonuc need The women who worked obtalned a higher income than those who depended on socml security benefits, despite the fact that many of them held low-paymg lobs because they were not prepared for better ones by educatmn and occupational trammg Those who had obtanxd such trannng were better off than those who had not, but few had made use of this nm,or sow&l resource The widows had also made only infrequent use of another socmtal resource, the private or pubhc employment agency Although most of the widows did not have extenslve ~~YXIXB re~sources, they very seldom werx uwolved III financml support systems through the exchange of monetary gifts and payments or help with the payment for rent, food, clothmg, medzal and other bills, and vacatmn costs Any such supports recaved or gwen involved the parents or chlldren of the widows, but almost none of the widows depended on such financml exchanges Most of the widows studled were rnmlgrants or first-generatmn Americans or had migrated from less urbanized areas of the Unlted States Although about 6,n 7 of the u~dows were ahlte, many of the white widows had been reared m ethnic famdms, often,n ethnic commumtms, and had expenenced madequate socmhzahon and educahonal preparation for modern urban hfe The medmn duratmn of schoohng achwed by the parents of these widows was less than 8 years, and the mldows and them late husbands averaged just over 10 years Despite thar educatmnnl and occupatvxml dlsadvantnges, a rather large proportlon of the nldows were able to buy thar own homes dung the husband s hfe The year before his fatal illness or accldent, which m three-fourths of the cases occurred before the \\oman reached age 65, the husband was in his usual lob He RELS generally not able to continue after the onset of the dlness, however The respondent,s had been wldowed for an average of 12 years The average age was 66 for white wldons and 58 for the black wvldows Not surpnslngly, fen of the women had Iwmg parents avzulable as resources Slbhngs and in-lams nere &her dead or not m frequent contact with the widows Chddren were more in evidence and more frequently in lnteractlon with their mothers Widows under age 55 were hkely to stdl have children lwlng at home Involvement with offsprlng hwng outslde the home was not unlform, some chddren, often B daughter, mere seen more often than others Few mldoas were able to devote then. whole lwes to lnteractmn mlth children dupersed outslde the household Frequency of contact and actwlty varmd with educahon, race, income, and beneficmry status Most of the fildows m the sample had friends from the years before the husband s death or had made new frmnds s,nce then One-sixth of the widows had n&her old friends nor new ones Although more than three-fourths of the women were affihated mlth a r&glow congregatmn, almost half belonged to no voluntary assocmhons As has also been demonstrated XI other studies, those women possessmg the personal resources assocmted wth an educated, urban background and those whose mcomes were consldorably above the poverty hne nere the most engaged socmlly Such women belong to voluntary assocmtmns, ma&an frlendshlps, and are engaged m complex support exchanges The poor are poor m many ways Despite uxome constrlctmns on the part of many, the ChIcago wea vvldows demonstrated it high degree of mdependence and an unwllhngness to gwe It up m order to move to households managed by other women and, m many cases, an unn~lhngncss even to remarry They generally mere heads of them own households In half the cases, they continued to hve where they had re- sided before the husband s death The man serv~e support that the widows both recewed and gave with any regularity was care durmg illness Many were not nwolved III the extenswe exchanges of se~~xe supports The combumtmn shows both mdependence and the rtbsence of nmny tradltmnally assumed sewces The widows oft,en were not uwolved m the socml actwaes about which they nere questmned Over half snld that they never go to movms, enga,ge m sport,s, or play cards or other games Forty percent do not entertam or travel out of town, 37 percent never eat lunch m the comptlny of others, 24 percent never go to church, and 21 percent never go vwtlng The one actwty that

3 they almost mevltably share with others IS the celebration of h&days, but even here 8 percent clauned that they do not engage m this type of actm1ty The mam contributors to the support systems of the widows were the husband and the chddren Among younger wdons, parents also partlclpnted m varmus supports, though selectively Most widows, however, did not have lwmg parents at the tune of the study and many did not have them when the husband died Most of the women, when given the opportunlty to hst persons or groups mvolved m varmus supports, did not take advantage of the opportumty Others hsted children and them late husband, when asked about the tnne before his death, and the present husband (m cases of remarriage))) children, and friends for the tune of the study. Otheralse, the widow hsted herself, portlcularly m connectmn wth the emotmnal support and social systems or 50 one Friends were hsted m connectmn with the social support system, they are persons one does social thmgs wth, but, surprlsmgly, this actwty does not translate itself into mvolvement m the emotmnal support system The names of slbhngs and relatwes other than the husband or children also did not appear often m the support systems Thus, the mxhfied extended fam,ly d,d not often operate across d&rent household thresholds as either the gwer or recewer of many supports One of the most dramatlc survey findmgs IS the absence of the helpmg professions and other sometal resources m the support systems, both during the rebulldmg process and at the txne of the study Even mmlsters, pnests, or rabbis were mentioned rareiy, when they were hsted, It was often as persons who faded to provide the expected 01 needed help Voluntary assoclatlons tended to be defined as bemg never or rarely helpful durmg the hfe rebuldmg permd, as were government agsncles (except for the Social Securlty Admuustratmn) and the other secondary resources avallable m the complex urban society The d&xences among widows lndlcate that this absence of a multldunensmnal and varmd social network m the support systems IS probably a consequence of a lack of personal resources, rather than of voluntary disengagement The widows who had mars complex networks for social engagement and as ~ssourcss for the development of support systems than did others were those whose parents had enjoyed numerous personal resources obtamed by means of their educatmn and occupatmn and who themselves were able to attam relatwely high levels of formal education m the urban school system, who married better-educated men with prestlgmus posltmns, and who enjoyed higher mcmnes when the husband was lwmg These widows were mars fully engaged sooally and expressed greater satisfaction wth them past and present life The differences ran across racial hnes, except that white widows wsrs less I&sly to have had dw advantaged backgrounds Every widow in the study sxperlenced some dlsorganlzatwn followmg the death of her husband and reorganized her hfe with httle reported help from anyone but parents, chddren, or sometimes other wdows Most women were living m- dependently m that they did not depend upon others for a variety of ssrv~ss m them nnmedlate social environment Many were nevertheless contained wxthm a very restricted social hfe space and had few personal resources with which to reengage 1x1 society on their own The fact that so many widows can be mdependent of &her their own or them husband s famlhes and societal charity 1s surprwng m wew of the hlstory of American sow&y and the rapldlty of recent sow&al change On the other hand, the evident hmltatlons of the social hfe space and support systems of so many of these widows are not surprising m wsw of the lnadequacles of their personal rssourcss Most of the older urban mldows have been caught between two styles of hfe, the one m which they were sociahzed and educated and the one m whxh they now lwe Changes m the United States during the past 6 decades have taken place so rapidly and the opportumtras for flexible and complex swlal engagement by women have ex- 1 panded so dramatically that the inadequate sociallzatmn and hmlted educatmn recewed before World War II have left many women unprepared to live mdependently m the world we have created Later generatmns of women will not fsce many of the problems and life restrlctmns that older widows typically encounter at present The age cohort of American women aged 60 and older,

4 which takes m more than one generation, 1s umque m many ways, and the problems and needs of such women null not be reproduced nlth the same frequency m future generatmns Thus, any actmn tha,t society undertakes to help solve some of the problems and hfe restrlctmns of widows hke those m the Chicago area mtervien ed m this study will not necessarily burden It m the future because such action null be needed less Even the xwxnen in this study are a very heterogeneous aggregate, reflecting age, ramal, ethnic, educational, and urbamzatmn dlfferen&s Pohmes deslgned to alleviate some of the problems and restrlctmns of one segment of this population may be w&vent or unhelpful to other segments r All but the very young wxdoms in this study had been soclahzed into famlhes that ldealued patnarchal authority, family-focused life, and automatxally engagmg support systems <They nsrs soclaimed to be women m the tradltmnal meanmg of the term, to prepare m the home of their parents to become housewives in their own homes The man such a woman marued nas expected to be the breadwmner, and she was expected to be the homemaker and to bear and care for children Medxal advances have cut the chlldblrth death rate for women and have added years of hfe to the nlfe-mother Today, she can be expected to live m her household with only her husband for years and alone for another years Most women are not prepared to reenter the labor market and engage m other roles outslde the home, even m face of the statlstlcal probablhty that they ~11 become divorced or wldoaed, or both, and that they ~11 have madequate econmmc supports unless they rely, m part, on their own efforts As more young women become better-educated, belong to the middle class, and becor& mfluenced by the women s movement, strong shifts toward a greater commitment on their part to roles outslds the home are expected to take place In fact, even middle-aged American women have been reentering educational and occupatmnal organlzatlons m large numbers Desplt,e these changes, however, a la,rge number of women, especially older ones, hove not been able to engage in roles outslde the home m the manner made necessary by the structure of modern socmty They have rehed on automatically engagmg support systems that depend on the husband as the.connechng lmk betwen them and the sow&y outside then narrow cnxle of relatwes and friends When events dlsorgamze these support systems, such women find themselves incapable of creatmg nsw ones With the death of the husband, the woman not only loses compamonshlp and the feelmg of bemg nnportant to at least one other human bemg, but also experiences changes m her dally routme and m other spheres of actlvlty Contact with m- laws usually dmmushes considerably followmg both widowhood and dworce, &ram m the relationship with other couples 1s Introduced, and the husband s work-related compamrms and actmlties are lost Yet, fen older wldoxs aant to stop bemg housewwes m them o\\n homes and move m with a marrlod daughter or daughter-m-law lust to guarantee duly social mteractmn Many present-day widows are poor, chiefly because them husbands did not earn a high m- come and therefore did not qunhfy for high social security benefits They lack tradltmnal sup- port systems and do not have the ablhty to build new ones Many of the most disadvantaged uldows are older women who are members of mmorlty groups-the blacks, the Spanlsh-speak- mg, or first- and second-generatmn ethmc Amencans Most of them have so httle formal schoolmg that they do not even understand the complexlty of the social system and of the commumty w lthm which they hve, let alone a~ able to utlhze the web of resources that soclety has been buldmg for Its members Some new resources of economm, servxs, or social nature Ideally should be created, smce these current hlstorlcal cohorts of older women need trammg to partuxpate m new forms of a&on Them mam need, however, IS for lmks to connect them with exlstmg societal rssources POLICY IMPLICATIONS The wldons exammcd m this study reflect different need patterns relative to social security benefits The older wdows, for the reasons already dwussed, suffer prunarlly from Inadequate total mcomes Their other problems cannot be as effectwely dealt with by means of an mcome- a0

5 mamtennnce program and attentmn to such problems probably uould not, m any event, affect thenfinancial powtmn or need for addltmnal mcome Wldons wth dependent children present an entirely different problem for the Soclsl Security Admnustratlon If such women do not have too many chddren, them benefits are mews nearly adequate than those of older wldons Employ ment IS hkely to rake the hvmg standards for a widow and her dependent chddren, as well as mcrenss her social contacts and, thereby, posslbly enhance her remarriage potential Earnings often are * necessary source of mcoms for a widow from the tune her last child 1s no longer dependent until she IS old enough for aged widow s benefits Social Security Admmlstratmn pohc~es on SUTYIYOI benefits, honever, offer no parhcular mcentlve for a mldow to obtam employment unless she has enough dependent chddren m her care to recense the famdy maxmmm whde norkmg Otherwise, a loss of benefits 1s mcurred for earnmgs beyond the esmmngs-test level Other women could substantially unprove them econmmc and social posltlon by parhclpatmg m the labor force The three mxm categones are mothers of dependent chddren who are out of the labor market or who have been workmg only for pm money, mothers who will soon bo mebglble for benefits because the youngest child 1s reachmg the cutoff age, and widows who ars not currently ehglble for anythmg except the lumpsum death benefit because they have no mmor children and are not old enough for aged wldom s benefits If such women are not currently workmg, and a large proportmn a~ not, entry or reentry into the labor force 1s often difficult, however American women, and these nldows m psrtlcular, are not equipped to prepare and search effectively for a well-paymg lob These addltmnal recommendatmns for research actwlty are suggested by the study findings 1 Widowa who were not covered under the social security program should be studled to determine how they manage without benefits 2 Investigation should be dreeted toward mecbanisms to improae the flow of information about 8. cietal resources to newly wldowed women, many Of whom simply do not understand what is hapnenin!z to them and often report contact With branch Ekes when they dnally do as, questfons 3 Women who are about to lose their benefits because of the age of thetr youwest child should be studied to determine their circumstances and future needs One of the findmgs of the study of widows m the Chlcago area 1s that many women have ad]usted, slowly although often pamfully, to very negative hfe circumstances Many 111, hungry, Isolated, Imuted, nomnvolved widows do not seek help Whether temporarily dlsorgsnlzed by) hfe events or chromcally peripheral to the mamstresm of society, many \+ldows are not lwmg in L dlgnlty because they do not have personal resources for reengngement, are heavily dependent on their children, and lack the skdls to functmn as urbamzed residents of our mulh-resourcefilled cltles Those nho have complex support networks are hkely to have built them on them own because asslgned support systems are vanlshmg or scattered m modern society Those nldows who cannot nutlate a support system on their own constitute the greatest problem, though It 1s temporary m nature The proportmn of such nomen m the total nldo~ed populatmn 1s rapldly decreasmg as modern America helps women to mcrease their competence m lwmg in modern America Recent Publications* GRAD, SUBAA Income o, the Populatzon Aged 60 alzd OLder, I.971 (Of&e of Research and Statistics, St&E Paper NO 28) Washfngton US Govt Print Off, pp $2, GREEXBLUM, Josmn The Rff;bta of Vocatknml Rehal,dltatzom on the Earntngs o, Dzaabled Persons (05ce of Research and Statistics, Staff Paper No 27 ) Washington US Govt Print Oft, PP $110 * Prepared In c,wnt, n with the OfBre of Research and Statistics Library, Social Security Administrntion Orders for Ltems Hsted should be directed to Dubhshers and booksellers. Federal publicntions for which ~rlces,,re listed should be ordered from the Suwrintendent of Documents, US Government Printing 05% Washington, DC 20402

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